Ahmed Mohamed

Detainees from the Uighur Muslim minority in western China have been approved for release. The government has said it would “serve no useful purpose” to continue to try to prove that any of these 17 men were enemy combatants. On Oct. 7, 2008, a federal judge ordered the Bush administration to release the remaining 17 Uighur detainees, but a federal appeals court stayed the order after the government appealed.